What's the World Coming To?

Today I saw a Two Men and a Truck truck, and it upset me because there was only one man in it. I also saw a Yellow Cab, and it was blue. What's the world coming to when you can't count on things like Yellow Cab and Two Men and a Truck to be consistent.

Life

Life goes by slowly, except when you are getting old; and the older I get, the better I used to be.

The future of computers

I will be more concerned about computers taking the place of people when we can teach them to worry.

Hit the Road

When is the best age to tell a highway that it is adopted? When it's new, it might not be able to take such a heavy load. When it's got a couple of years on it, the bad news might create a few cracks in its personality. When it is old, it might wish it was younger and had a tougher surface to withstand the news.

Volunteering

My brother Bill told me a friend of his has just started volunteering at the library. She says the best benefit for working there is that you get to take out books for free.

Getting Shot

I recently got one of those automated phone  messages from my medical insurance company telling me how important it was to get my flu shot and all of the benefits of doing so. Then the automated message asked if I would promise to get a flu shot. So, I said, "Yes." Yesterday, I got my flu shot because I always do what I promise a an automated voice I will do. It is a matter of pride in keeping my word.

Voting Right

I live in a dry county. That means no liquor can be sold here. Of course, a few feet from our county line, we have a liquor store and a first-last-chance bar.

One year, we had a county-wide vote about allowing liquor and beer sales here. An elderly woman wrote in to our local paper about the election. She was in her 80s and registering to vote for the first time. She wrote that in the past, her recently deceased husband and she would have voted on opposite sides of all issues, thus cancelling out each others votes--so they never registered to vote.

But the wet/dry election that year had caused her to register to vote--and she was going to vote for buying liquor in our county because she did not want to have to drive out of the county to buy rum for her rum cakes that she made every other Christmas! Not exactly a deep reason for voting, but there was some logic in it.

Body Repairs

I recently met a man, who had a tendon in his upper arm replaced with one from a cadaver. And it worked. It is amazing what science is doing now to help us repair or replace parts of our bodies. A few years ago, all of the talk about cloning led some people to say they were not in agreement with cloning, because people might clone themselves for use as spare parts. My fear would be that my clone might use me for spare parts.

Professional Tailgating

Last night in the middle lane of I 75/71, another tailgater latched onto my car. After about 5 miles, I got into the right lane and he sped on by, only to latch onto another slower moving vehicle. I ended up passing him as he stayed right on the bumper of the slower car. It wasn't until later that I realized what he was doing. As a student driver in the NASCAR freeway's professional drivers' training school, he was practicing his drafting--saving gas at 70 mph!